Example sentences of "[adj] year [noun sg] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A friend of 30 years standing who had previously cared for a woman with senile dementia described how : |
| 2 | Of course they are rightly pleased to have agreed a new marketing contract with IMG for 1993–95 worth almost double the initial three year contract which guaranteed them $56m but is likely to be around $75m by the time it is completed . |
| 3 | Advance in good management is the main theme of our management development team , as well as being the title of a new three year project we launched last year . |
| 4 | But for now Kylie harnessed it to press on with the next stage of her ten year plan which had been drawn up by her musical gurus . |
| 5 | After her first five years apprenticeship she became involved with transport and it was here that she was destined to make her mark and has continued to do so for 37 years . |
| 6 | Now you 're moving to Bilborough , you 're moving to Bilborough erm just say in five years time they got rid of the flats erm and they built houses on here on the site , would you move back ? |
| 7 | The Institute itself has recently reopened after a five year refurbishment which included the installation of a new metal and glass roof and the conversion of the former tapestry gallery into one suitable for displaying pictures . |
| 8 | It was discovered that the five year contract he had signed with the right wing government three days before the general elections entitled him to £724,000 . |
| 9 | ICL Plc has pushed back the timeframe for its stock market flotation , saying that it will most likely be towards the back end of the two to five year target it set when Fujitsu Ltd took its 80% stake . |
| 10 | Also , like the writer in the Congregational Year Book he insisted that Gothic architecture was ‘ the most economic style of Chapel Building ’ . |
| 11 | With two new atoms added to the previous five , the children tackled harder problems ( ‘ How many different CFC molecules can you invent with these model atoms ’ ? ) , and towards the end of the two year trial they had become familiar enough with valencies and weights to take to the Periodic Table idea enthusiastically . |
| 12 | His target include a defender and another striker to help ease the load on Dundalk based Dessie Gorman who has also signed a two year contract which ended speculation that he might return south . |
| 13 | It was the Seven Years War which broke up completely and decisively the old system of balance four decades later . |
| 14 | At the most critical moment of the Seven Years War it amounted to 4.4 per cent of the total population of the country , the highest proportion of this kind reached in any State during the century . |
| 15 | Even during the much more disastrous Seven Years War she made strenuous efforts under the Duc de Choiseul to recover her lost seapower , and these were continued in the 1760s and 1770s . |